Increase in Job adverts

In promising news, the amount of jobs advertised on seek.com.au went up by 2% month-on-month in August, which is over 13% more than last year, indicating a peak in positions since 2010, according to new figures.

Adverts improved year-on-year across all states, to name a few; NSW was up greater than 7%, Victoria up by 15.5%, Queensland up 20% and Western Australia saw a promising increase of over 14%.

When looking at this by sector, the Information/Communication/Technology, Trades and Services, Healthcare and Medical fields had the greatest number of advertised roles. Mining, Resources and Energy remains to be showing the strongest growth; rising from a lower base by 72% year-on-year.